254 pages : 22 cm

A review of engraving, etching, aquatint and mezzotint by such masters as Tiepolo, Canaletto, Hogarth, Goya, and others. 168 illustrations, nine in color

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index

France in the 1st quarter of the eighteenth century -- The illustrated books: oudry, Boucher, Cochin, and the vingette engravers -- William Hogarth -- Painter-etchers in Italy: Canaletto, Tiepolo, and Piranesi -- The art of the French painter-engravers: Fragonard, Saint-Aubin and the amateurs -- France in the sixties professional engravers, first attempts at colour, popular prints -- Germany and England Chodowiecki: the engravers after Reynolds -- The years 1770-89 the Paris School of engravers: Lavrience, Moreau-Le-Jeune, Debucourt -- The French Revolution, Gillray, Rowlandson -- Goya's Caprichos -- The end of the century -- Various opinions of the prints of the eighteenth century, from their own day until now

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